Lundahl (2022s) Continues to Make Groundless Proclamations about Consciousness
Kevin R. Henke
October 14, 2022
In Henke (2022av), I further commented on consciousness:
“The laws of biochemistry and physics most certainly allow our brains to function and our functioning brains allow us to interact with our environments, make observations, reason and philosophize. People cannot reason and philosophize if their brains are dead or malfunctioning.”
Lundahl (2022s) then gives the following rambling response:
“As far as "allow" - no problem. Give the brain the status of a tap, fine. But it is not the source, under pain of any statement on it (as not included in the surroundings even animal brains can for some natural reason investigate) being invalid.”
Again as he has often stated in this debate, Mr. Lundahl is just making a proclamation without a shred of evidence that there has to be something supernatural behind human consciousness. The arguments in Lewis (1960), which Mr. Lundahl primarily relies on, are outdated and worthless. As I’ve stated before in Henke (2022ap):
“Neurologist Harris (2010, pp. 158-159) further summarizes the situation, which does not support Mr. Lundahl, C.S. Lewis and their religious beliefs. He states that religious views of the human mind are becoming less and less viable every day. Over 150 years of brain science has demonstrated that our views of the world really do depend on voltage changes and chemical reactions in our brains and not because we have a ‘soul.’”
Why won’t Mr. Lundahl read my recommended 21st century books on human consciousness, so that we can discuss them?
References:
Harris, S. 2010. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Hunan Values: Free Press: New York, N.Y., USA, 291pp.
Lewis, C.S. 1960. Miracles, 2nd ed., printed 1974: Harper One: HarperCollinsPublishers, 294pp.